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Etnia Barcelona has spent 25 years building a reputation for quality and service that leaves no room for shortcuts. Warranty replacements ship within 24 hours, without exception, and opticians recommend the brand to their own customers on that reputation.

French artificial-intelligence company Mistral has raised €3 billion at a valuation of approximately €21 billion, or $24 billion, weeks after signing an agreement to explore the use of its technology in Côte d’Ivoire.

On September 2, 2026, a University of Iowa research summary detailed findings from 219 hybrid employees: their energy varied about 33% less on home days than on office days, while their overall energy did not increase. The steadier pattern was associated with better progress toward daily work goals.

BambooHR’s September 1 research release describes an online survey of 1,608 full-time salaried U.S. desk workers, including 520 HR professionals, and estimates 87 minutes of daily AI use, or 22,526 minutes annually; respondents allocated 42% of that time to troubleshooting and prompt iteration, 35% to productive work and roughly 20 eight-hour days to the first…

BambooHR research finds employees spend 42 percent of their AI time troubleshooting errors and refining prompts, compared with 35 percent on productive work. With 63 percent of organisations increasing AI budgets, the findings raise new questions about enterprise deployment ROI.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm added another $1.75 billion since the fund launched in January with $6.75 billion.

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Consumers across the U.S. spent $26.4 billion in their collective ecommerce sales during the four-day Amazon Prime Day event, from June 23 to 26, 2026, according to data from Adobe Analytics.

Working from home and digital technology may be making it easier for employees to work while ill and blurring the boundaries between work and home, according to a new study.

A behavioral scientist breaks down what companies should weigh when designing their own hybrid schedules